Painting flowers from imagination is very satisfying, you can get rid of reference picture and enjoy the freedom of making up flowers that are whimsical and funny looking 🙂
Every year, the North Vancouver Community Arts Council is organizing an Anonymous Art Show. The rules are that every painting has to be 8 x 8 inches and signed only at the back. You can read more about the Anonymous Art Show here.
This year I decided to paint all three paintings on canvas.
I started by selecting 3-4 colors for each painting
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And did paint an abstract background with alcohol to add textures
I also added a few random lines onto each of the background.
Then I selected a few shapes to keep
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And painted around them with white acrylic
I also glazed a few areas
Added a few patterns
And a few lines
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Originally from France, I have been living in North Vancouver, Canada for the past 20 years.
My work has been collected and exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally. I am also part of the Art Rentals and sales program of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Many of my paintings have been published in Art books and magazines (Artist Magazine, Watercolor Artist Magazine, Acrylic Magazine, International Artist Magazine). I wrote 2 art instruction books with North Light/F+W Books.
I have been writing for the last 5 years for my blog: paintingdemos.com, that has a mailing list of about 10 000 subscribers and about 20 000 visitors per month.
I am an active member in the community, as a co-founder of the North Shore Art crawl, a co-founder of a weekly life drawing group, a board member of the North Vancouver Arts Council, and have been invited as a juror for public art, art grants and juried exhibitions. You can read more about my collaborations here.
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perri
Love the ordered chaos and whimsy in each of these. Amazing colors, too.
Sandrine Pelissier
Thanks Perri !